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Discipline(s): Music Composition, Writing (including playwriting and screenwriting) Eligibility: Using only talent and need as the criteria for selection, the Foundation invites any and all emerging to late career artists to apply. Session: 4 – 6 week sessions from mid-May – October Description: The Edward F. Albee Foundation exists to serve writers, visual artists, and composers from all walks of life, by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance. Writers and composers receive a large bedroom equipped with a desk, bed and dresser. The environment is simple and communal and all residents are expected to do their share in maintaining the condition of “The Barn” as well as its peaceful environment. All residents are responsible for their food, travel…
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Discipline(s): Choreography, Music Composition, Literature, Visual Arts, and Media Arts/New Genre Eligibility: Emerging to mid-career artists. International applicants welcome. Students are not eligible for residencies. Session: Mid-March – mid-November; 4-5 week sessions Description: The Artists’ Barn contains three visual art studios, a large dance studio, a darkroom, and a music composition studio with a baby grand and electric piano. The studios are rustic with wood burning stoves and modest sleeping lofts. There is also a kitchen, a large common area, shared bathrooms, and laundry facilities in the Barn. The Djerassi Resident Artists Program is internationally recognized as one of the eminent artist residency programs. We strive to provide the best possible residency experience for artists of superior talent from a diverse range…
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Discipline(s): Music, Theatre, Dance, Performance Art, Visual Art, Literary Art, Scientists, Designers, Architects and Engineers Eligibility: Emerging to mid-career, ensembles, and collaborations welcome to apply. Session: January – March, 1-month sessions Deadline: Mid-June. • Description: Residents are given a cabin, 24-hour access to studios and the time and space to create. Residents are responsible for food, travel, materials and other expenses. By design, the residents form a small community of 5–12 artists, depending on the group. A weekly meal is shared and collaboration is encouraged.
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Discipline(s): Writing (including playwriting, poetry, translation, fiction, and non-literary fiction), Music Composition/Recording, Visual Arts, Design, New Genres, Performance Art Eligibility: Emerging to mid-career. Students are ineligible. • Session: March – December, 3-6 week sessions; 9 residencies are awarded per session. Description: The Aurora Project encourages artists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines to apply, the limitation of available space and equipment being the primary restrictions. Private studios are open 24/7; simple, comfortable accommodations and three meals a day are provided. Residents are selected based on their applications A waiting list is maintained. Room, board, and workspace provided.
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Atlantic Center for the Arts is an innovative nonprofit artists-in-residence program that provides artists with an opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the world’s masters in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Since the program began in 1982, over 3500 artists have been served from the US and around the world. The three week Residency Program brings together three “Master Artists” from different disciplines, such as the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, film/video, and multimedia), architecture, music (composition and performance), literature, choreography, dance, performance art, and theater . Each Master Artist determines the requirements and basic structure of their residency, and through an online application process, they each select eight “Associate Artists” to participate in the three-week program. The essence of the…
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ART342 is a nonprofit residency and artist community that provides the necessary time and space for independent creative practice. Studios, living arrangements and financial aid are given to qualified emerging or midcareer artists. We support the work of both national and international artists who specialize in the visual arts, writing or music composition. During 14-week sessions in the Spring, Summer and Fall, accepted residents experience 24 hour studio access, informal exchanges with fellow artists, and opportunities in community interaction and outreach. ART342 is located alongside the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, Colorado and approximately 60 miles north of Denver. Discipline(s): Music Composition, Visual Arts, Scholarly and Creative Writing Eligibility: Emerging to mature. Artists must show professional standing in…
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As a fully accredited member of the Alliance of Artists Communities (http://www.artistcommunities.org/) and RES ARTIS: International Association of Residential Art Centres (http://www.resartis.org/en/), the Anderson Center provides retreats of two to four weeks duration from May through October each year to enable artists, writers, and scholars of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment to create, advance, or complete works-in-progress. A rotating Peer Review Panel comprised of professional artists, writers, and scholars annually screens and selects all applicants. This program is the largest of its kind in the Upper Midwest. Since the Center opened in 1995, more than 700 artists, writers, and scholars from over 45 states and 40 foreign countries have participated in the program. The Center also engages in artist exchange programs with the…
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18th Street Arts Center is one of the top 20 artist residency programs in the US, and the largest in Southern California. Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street supports artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public. We strive to provide artists the space and time to take risks, to foster the ideal environment for artists and the public to directly engage, and to create experiences and partnerships that foster positive social change. 18th Street Arts Center values art making as an essential component of a vibrant, just, and healthy society. Its mission is “to provoke public dialogue through contemporary art making.” Founded…
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Discipline: painting photography, sculpture, video, installation, and new media Eligibility: emerging, mid-career, and hard-working artists Residencies: 8/year • Session: 3-6 months Deadlines: Mid-May LMCC’s Program Name, Month, Year Page 5 of 31 • Description: The residency offers 24-hour studio access, the opportunity to present work to curators and critics through AAI-organized studio visits, a curated exhibition at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space and exposure to a broadened general audience during bi-annual Open Studios. Working within the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, a large multipurpose studio building, residency participants will also have the opportunity to engage with other building artists, some new to the neighborhood and others have worked in the LES for several decades.
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Deadline: Early January Discipline(s): Puppetry and “hybrid” Theater/Performance, Dance submissions are accepted on a year-by-year basis Session: 1-3 years Description: Through the HERE Artist Residency Program, HERE commissions and develops new hybrid works. As part of the HERE community of artists and audiences, our residents show works-in-progress, develop workshop productions, and mount full–scale productions. Through our residency programs, HERE seeks to not only grow innovative artistic work, but also give artists the awareness and skills—in areas such as audience relations, budgeting, grantwriting, and touring—they need to continue to grow their careers.
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